Lets Let the Govt. Run Health Care?

[sean 252]

Post Office has thousands of workers paid for … not working

posted at 3:35 pm on September 30, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Last week, Democrats on Capitol Hill pushed forward with a $4 billion bailout of the US Postal Service, which continues to lose money while business declines. One reason that the Post Office has such a large deficit may be their labor practices. The Federal Times reported earlier this month that the USPS pays out an average of 45,000 hours per week of “standby time,” where literally postal employees sit around and do nothing:

The U.S. Postal Service, struggling with a massive deficit caused by plummeting mail volume, spends more than a million dollars each week to pay thousands of employees to sit in empty rooms and do nothing.
It’s a practice called “standby time,” and it has existed for years — but postal employees say it was rarely used until this year. Now, postal officials say, the agency is averaging about 45,000 hours of standby time every week — the equivalent of having 1,125 full-time employees sitting idle, at a cost of more than $50 million per year.
Mail volume is down 12.6 percent compared with last year, and many postal supervisors simply don’t have enough work to keep all employees busy. But a thicket of union rules prevents managers from laying off excess employees; a recent agreement with the unions, in fact, temporarily prevents the Postal Service from even reassigning them to other facilities that could use them.

[dallen]

with Email, ups, fed ex, etc the postal service will probably soon be a thing of the past. Those are some staggering figures.

[Sillyneck 381]

Originally Posted by sean 252

Post Office has thousands of workers paid for … not working

posted at 3:35 pm on September 30, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Last week, Democrats on Capitol Hill pushed forward with a $4 billion bailout of the US Postal Service, which continues to lose money while business declines. One reason that the Post Office has such a large deficit may be their labor practices. The Federal Times reported earlier this month that the USPS pays out an average of 45,000 hours per week of “standby time,” where literally postal employees sit around and do nothing:

The U.S. Postal Service, struggling with a massive deficit caused by plummeting mail volume, spends more than a million dollars each week to pay thousands of employees to sit in empty rooms and do nothing.
It’s a practice called “standby time,” and it has existed for years — but postal employees say it was rarely used until this year. Now, postal officials say, the agency is averaging about 45,000 hours of standby time every week — the equivalent of having 1,125 full-time employees sitting idle, at a cost of more than $50 million per year.
Mail volume is down 12.6 percent compared with last year, and many postal supervisors simply don’t have enough work to keep all employees busy. But a thicket of union rules prevents managers from laying off excess employees; a recent agreement with the unions, in fact, temporarily prevents the Postal Service from even reassigning them to other facilities that could use them.

*see the future throught my crystal ball*

"So Mr. Sean.... I see on your chart that we are supposed to cut your left leg off today. Odd that it's your right leg that's all gangrenous... but the govt issued chart says to remove the left leg so that's what we're going to do. It's a good thing you're unconscious because we wouldn't listen to your rational thought process even if you were awake."


I'm already working on some black market medical care solutions I think there'll be a ton of docs that stop practicing legitimately and work under the table. Imagine the reasonable pricing

[corndog]

When businesses spend more than they make, they go out of business. This is how our government operates, but instead of going out of business, they take our money to compensate for their losses. At what point so we start setting things on fire? I'll be damned if I'm ever going to protest "the right way", they've developed a procedure for those people, and it makes them go in circles until they forget what they were doing. The appropriate hybrid technique involves peaceful protests during the day, and molotov's at night!

[mxdad100]

Originally Posted by sean 252

Post Office has thousands of workers paid for … not working

posted at 3:35 pm on September 30, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Last week, Democrats on Capitol Hill pushed forward with a $4 billion bailout of the US Postal Service, which continues to lose money while business declines. One reason that the Post Office has such a large deficit may be their labor practices. The Federal Times reported earlier this month that the USPS pays out an average of 45,000 hours per week of “standby time,” where literally postal employees sit around and do nothing:

The U.S. Postal Service, struggling with a massive deficit caused by plummeting mail volume, spends more than a million dollars each week to pay thousands of employees to sit in empty rooms and do nothing.
It’s a practice called “standby time,” and it has existed for years — but postal employees say it was rarely used until this year. Now, postal officials say, the agency is averaging about 45,000 hours of standby time every week — the equivalent of having 1,125 full-time employees sitting idle, at a cost of more than $50 million per year.
Mail volume is down 12.6 percent compared with last year, and many postal supervisors simply don’t have enough work to keep all employees busy. But a thicket of union rules prevents managers from laying off excess employees; a recent agreement with the unions, in fact, temporarily prevents the Postal Service from even reassigning them to other facilities that could use them.

Send them your resume'...since you're "new" background would fit perrrrrfectly !

[sean 252]

Originally Posted by mxdad100

Send them your resume'...since you're "new" background would fit perrrrrfectly !

Throttle Back Gramps!!! You are pretty cocky now since you are working again! Make it a year and then you can get all mighty,,,hell you might even get some

[Sillyneck 381]

Originally Posted by corndog

When businesses spend more than they make, they go out of business. This is how our government operates, but instead of going out of business, they take our money to compensate for their losses. At what point so we start setting things on fire? I'll be damned if I'm ever going to protest "the right way", they've developed a procedure for those people, and it makes them go in circles until they forget what they were doing. The appropriate hybrid technique involves peaceful protests during the day, and molotov's at night!

hell if I had a money printing press I'd probably give money away too.